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it's being described as the worst school shooting in american history a mass shooting inside of a connecticut school leaves at least twenty six people dead we'll have an update on the shooting just ahead. at colleges and universities across the u.s. you find a wide variety of student groups but should there be a whites only group one student in maryland is pushing that idea we'll speak to him and just of minutes. and it's that time of the year again the hostile and bustle of the holiday season but has the u.s. become too politically correct when it comes to celebrating christmas we'll dive into that topic and take a look at the stress of the holidays. it's
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friday december fourteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . all right well we begin tonight with a tragedy that has left americans across the nation speechless it's been called the second worst mass killing in a in the school to merican history this morning around nine thirty a gunman entered shady hook sandy hook elementary school in newtown connecticut and opened fire there's been some confusion today as to who the shooter was police say this evening that twenty year old adam lanza is the person responsible for the killings his twenty four year old brother ryan was at first believed to be the suspect but scenes like this have been flooding into the television screens around the nation since the chaos began at least twenty six people are dead and as many as twenty of those people were children two handguns were found on the scene and two
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more in the suspects car law enforcement officials have said that the shooter is among the dead he is believed to have killed himself the details of this story are still murky at best but we can expect to hear more about this story in future days and weeks it's also a very emotional for president obama as well he addressed the nation today about the tragedy here's part of that address the majority of those who died today were children. beautiful little kids between the ages of five and ten years old. they had their entire lives ahead of them. birthdays graduations. weddings. kids of their own.
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president obama went on to talk about his own daughters and demanded immediate action so as you can see it's been a very emotional afternoon for everyone in the us tonight r.t. correspondent liz wall reports from the white house where candlelight vigil for the victims took place. well today a day that will live in infamy in the u.s. after one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history nearly thirty people shot dead many of them very young children in newtown connecticut this is now igniting a debate over gun control in the country and people are now taking their concerns to the front of the white house as you can see people about one hundred people have gathered here in front of the white house holding candles holding signs voicing their concerns saying that now is the time to talk about gun control in the u.s. we spoke to some of the protesters here's what they had to say today we saw a room full of kindergartners slaughtered by a guy who never should have gotten
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a gun. if our president can't talk about it the issue now as a father of two daughters young daughters i think it's time for him for a gut check in there's no more and no more excuses anymore this should not have happened we should have measures in place before this to prevent people from accessing guns who are not fit to hold them also in my opinion i don't think something that is military grade as an assault rifle i don't think that should be in the hands of anybody it's not a toy and we can't keep our teachers and our children and our school administrators safe and very day we can keep people who are walking down the street safe then there should be changed and to resign ourselves to the to saying that this is a problem that has a solution is defeatist and we should we should take this on and change what we did hear from press secretary jay carney earlier this morning he said today is not the day to be talking about gun control we also heard a very emotional speech from president obama sending his condolences to the victims
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to the family is in newtown connecticut he did not talk about the issue of guns or gun control but protesters here say if today is not the day in the wake of this very tragic mass shooting they don't know when that time. and washington liz wall are to. moving along now a recent u.s. census bureau report projects that the u.s. will become a majority minority nation for the first time in twenty forty three in other words the majority of people living in this country will not be caucasian from there the gap is only expected to widen right now minorities make up about thirty seven percent of the u.s. population or account for about one hundred sixteen point two million people by two thousand and sixty however the minority population is expected to become fifty seven percent or about two hundred forty one point three million people so we are beginning to see this shift in demographics a shift that has been a long time coming but one maryland student isn't lamenting instead he has for most
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proposed a white student union at towson university in maryland it's an idea that has gained a lot of attention and even more criticism matthew haim bach is a senior studying u.s. history and the founder and commander of the white student union i spoke with him earlier about how this all idea came about. well i came up with the idea and the fact that you see in america that every single racial group has an advocacy group we have the n.w. c.p. we have a pact we have you know groups for hispanics for asians for everybody so kind of the idea is that people come together on kind of tribal lines and they advocate for the best interests of their people and whites are the only group that doesn't have that so the idea that students when on college campuses were facing affirmative action which discriminates against white students you know not being able to get into the college or you know not be able get proper scholarships based on how much work we've done it's you know
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a problem that we need to face and these demographic trends which are a shift which are i think are bad for white students so we need to come together on racial lines as every other group has an advocate for the best interests of our people and so let's let's break it down into a few things first of all what will your union be doing in specific what what are you hoping to do well what we're already doing is we're going to do it three different things first of all is education so we brought in speakers so far such as a tailor to come and talk of the idea of what is white identity so the barbarian in speakers that you know you're not going to hear those ideas in a cultural marxist classroom so bring that to this is the the campus community second of all is trying to be a positive force for campus kind of the idea of where you have political parties like golden dawn which take care of greeks to you know greek people first cd of the white students that are we're doing safety patrols on campus to try and look. for people that are perpetrating violent crimes but also doing blood drives things like
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that donating to the homeless so that's the second thing we're trying to do and the third is be a political force that attacking affirmative action on campus because it's discriminatory and also raising awareness about things like the fact we allow illegal immigrants now to get in-state tuition that you know that's money that's being taken from our university from legal us citizens and being spent on criminals so that's kind of the three things we're focusing on and your last question answer you just said that you are interested. in promoting white interests this crap on a white interest is what the white interest is simply the idea of the white race in general being able to protect our culture being to protect our country's being able to work in what is best for us the programs like affirmative action are bad and restrictive third world immigration in this country is bad for white interests in a free trade agreements like nafta which send our jobs overseas to third world countries like mexico that undercut our wages and put us out of work those are bad for white interests so culturally whites are under attack and it's only going to continue as we become less and less the population as we saw with barack obama's
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reelection that you know mitt romney got over sixty percent of the white vote but that wasn't enough so as the demographic trends shift republicans are going to be unable to win an election and whites need to either come together and stand up and fight together or else we're going to lose everything so matthew what qualifies as a white person a white person would be i mean a caucasian someone from europe stretching all the way from their berrien peninsula all the way to russia and who's going to be allowed in your group whatever is going to allow the group that's actually the one thing that people understand it's not a whites only group it's people who are standing in advocating for white interests just as there is white members of the black student union on campus and there's black and hispanic members and asian members and jewish members in our group that works for the best interest of hispanics so it's the idea that we're not limiting people from coming and it's an open door if you believe in white culture if you want to protect white culture in advance white interests and fight discrimination on campus you can join ok so if you accept black people minority students hispanics
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anybody but in a recent interview you said with that with the big picture host tom hartman that you don't consider jewish people like you can you explain shore well i mean it's the idea if you look in terms of the jewish population that they're not white that they they have you know things like tay-sachs disease for instance where that is a disease that was only found within the jewish population so genetically i mean when i've been talking about the way someone looks. but genetically there is a difference amongst the majority of the jewish population as a jewish race and the idea that we're questioning them as a separate people that's a relatively new thing in western civilization i mean talk to someone for two thousand years everyone knew that jews were a separate people but doesn't mean we're advocating discrimination against them it's just that they as a people are advocating for their best interests and because they are not white they might not be advocating for the best interests of white people so let me ask you this how have you personally been discriminated against as a white person one terms of skirmishing you can just look at hiring that i'm looking at you have specific i want
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a specific example well specifically first of all things dealing with anti white language you know racial slurs being hurled on campus it's a sort of thing where as a student if i already use any sores against minorities homosexuals jews then what would happen i would probably get suspended or possibly even expelled but you know black students on campus hispanic students are allowed to century say whatever they want and they can get away with it and that's an unfortunate sign of the times where being pro white or even just simply being proud of the way god made you if you're white is it seems like a sin but if you're any other racial group then that's ok one of the things that you have said in the past few past interviews is that you know you're really for this if the if there is a black student organization or hispanic students are going to action why not there be a white student organization and there is some substance to that but one of the things i do want to ask you is it does kind of seem like your organization takes things to another level and it's not necessarily promoting white unity it what it is
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promoting is kind of separate but equal can you can you talk about sure or i mean the very idea that we're facing that this isn't simply political problems we're facing we're facing in america the potential of losing this is our country i mean as pat buchanan talks about you can't take a first world country and fill it with third world people and expect to remain a first world country so the very you know ground that our forefathers fought and died for we have no. and heritage that and whites need to be able to come together to fight this is slavery was founded on more than just white people it was founded on the backs of slaves and on the backs of native americans that made this land what it is and help us and americans come together and become americans so we are in a sense an essence a nation of immigrants so so when you say things like you don't expand you don't want immigrants in your schools and whatnot i mean it kind of seems like contradictory to what to what your your group stands for well in terms of looking at you know the great samal huntington wrote in his book who are we he talked about
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what is the foundation of america now we were immigrants from europe and that's the thing we shared we shared blood we shared culture that there was something more that tied us together now you look at america and what is an american an american is this abstract idea that we're bound together by capitalism and we kind of salute the same flag and that's about it that there's no strong identity of what is an american there's no community anymore we're simply a multicultural hodgepodge you look at l.a. that's an example of what america was founded as it's nearly nearly one third world country in of its own right so that's kind of a problem i think the wrong side of time but do you consider yourself to be a white nationalist i consider myself to be a southern nationalist because as i see that you know the southern people there was a war fought over the idea that we've always identified as being a separate people now that doesn't mean i mean i will towards my brothers to the north it doesn't mean i have any ill will towards any racial group i simply want to be able to protect by culture and my people in advance the best interests of them
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and very interesting discussion and i know you've taken a lot of flak for it but we appreciate your time here today and i was matthew hemlock founder of the white student union. all right well tis the season for christmas trees menorahs over eating over spending and one more thing political correctness most of us at one time or another have had that awkward moment where you don't know whether to wish someone a merry christmas or a happy hanukkah just plain happy holidays we've seen the so-called war on christmas play out on fox news and other stations and we've watched governor lincoln chafee of rhode island change the name of the annual christmas tree to the holiday tree one rhode island lawmaker went so far as to call the governor governor grange but wait a minute isn't this season about love and family and holiday cheer how the whole of these become too politically correct for their own good to discuss this and more i was joined earlier by political comedian dean obeidallah as well as dr victoria taylor a psychologist at the american institute for cognitive therapy i asked them what's
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the deal with all this political correctness there's a clear war on christmas going on atheists are ripping down christmas trees all over new york they're stealing baby jesus from the north from crayfish is selling on e bay it's unreal what's going on in new york i can't even walk five feet without a atheist tackling a christian it's so if there's nothing going on this is a game this is part of fox there's war on intelligence that's what this is about to make us feel like there's a really sure there's not you know what the idea of which is i want a happy holiday there's nothing wrong with that if i know someone's christian i said merry christmas of i'm not sure i say happy holidays because america is a melting pot we're multicultural nation and there are people of all different faiths so why should make someone feel like they're not the right faith by saying merry christmas and force them to be a christian that's their choice and dr victoria i want to ask next question to you what's the psychology behind this really i mean what is the mentality behind this this happy holidays that be christmas happy hanukkah kind of mentality where political correctness is now kind of dominating the narrative in this country.
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language really important is that people are validating whatever holiday people are celebrating i don't think it has their political correctness so much as highness to our fellow humans in this holiday season ok and but let me ask you this is it mentally healthy for people to have these types of high expectations for the holidays and have these types of. kind of chaos with the consumerism and and everything that comes along with the holiday season well i think that a lot of people do struggle with the consumerism and expectation that people should really be filled with thought and happiest during the season and i work with a lot of depressed and anxious patients who don't necessarily feel that way so i help them come up with me in order to deal with those sort of situations. i think is her business humorous and what was unplanned race lately it is
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a lot harder to sort of celebrate the holidays the way that they used to be celebrated and it's important for people to stick to a budget and maybe create a new tradition and dan let me ask you this has christmas become too overblown i mean can christmas drive you crazy. well you know it's such a huge holiday such a big thing i don't even think you have to be christian to celebrate a mean in my case my mom's christian my dad's muslim my muslim cousins who come over we celebrate christmas together so i mean it's become for some people are going to hate this but for many it's not just about you know being christian the more it's not a day of bringing people together so bringing good will peace people feeling good about themselves and family getting together and celebrating sort of the years almost like thanksgiving number two i know some people don't like that but i think on some level for many people in multicultural multi-religious homes that's what it's become and i do want to play one little sound bite that we have from fox news fox news of course has made a habit out of bringing up these one christmas segments it's almost become
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a holiday tradition so here's bill o'reilly and his latest rant on the war on christmas. back into segments and i we continue our reporting on which american stores are using christmas and advertising this christmas season but that national controversy that's because the word christmas has been removed from the title christmas is a federal holiday it's not like you could just pretend it doesn't even happen i mean take away that it can be seen and i'm going to take away red and green it's crazy couple days ago a newsweek magazine declared that the war on christmas is over and traditional forces have won the magazine citing retail stores allowing employees to now say merry christmas to the shoppers a few years ago some corporations were if it didn't now before you get your opinions on the c.n.n. dr i do have one other clip to show you this is the very next story that our riley read right after his one christmas rant and the commercial that followed it. that's
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not all right a reaction from bob beckel lauren graham on the raging culture war in america let america jelly on a u.s. marine incarcerated in mexico for absolutely no reason at all this is outrageous we're trying to get him released we'll be back in a moment. so happy holidays deemed as anything the same off to you. obviously you can't because it doesn't matter what thoughts knows it does you know these are words just to make people watch the show the way it did does he believe it or not i don't know but it gets his audience and it's a conservative audience republican audience in gage because they want to hear about this issue and then they're not offended by happy holidays and sure they might want to hear merry christmas but all muslim and i don't make everyone happy i eat at the end of ramadan i only wish the other muslims if you're christian you wish people you know merry christmas or they're jewish say happy hanukkah well that is just say hey have a great day whatever this is america this is the beauty of our nation were a melting pot some people wanted to be one city and i'm sorry that's not the case.
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dr victoria i want to ask this next question to you chris says become a really big business in the u.s. i mean do you think that the economic aspects of it now outweigh the religiousness of it i mean could you even call christmas like the christmas king and dust royal complex i think like people need to think about a polity is religion by religion and that we need to think about that question and family i think it really depends on the people you're talking about and we can make you. so dr victoria what do you think the best solution is for somebody that's struggling to of whether to get somebody to get their a christmas gift or say happy holidays what's the best solution from your standpoint. only. people act people. and those people that you don't know just because best to say nothing and then get
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the wrong thing maybe even let's not forget that christmas trees are german pagan tradition right well you know that they were they were mean historically but now they're fun things that we put decorations on and we sit around for two weeks and we throw them in the street you know at the end of the two weeks and say thanks for the memories you know it is what it is i still love what christmas represents you know the idea of family coming together it can be difficult it can be stressful i know that but when it boils down you know it really is a celebration of our family and being together at a time of the year that just makes people smile more and a little be a little bit happier i wish that christmas spirit could be all your frankly do you think that we've lost the meaning of the holiday season with the commercialism and the happy holidays and all this stuff do you think we've lost the old meaning i don't i mean i think each person's their own to be quite honest i think some people it's still a really important day from a religious point of view so bring the birth of jesus christ for others it's just a family holiday for others it's just
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a day off from work frankly so i think for each their own but i think there's so many people who really new york city i live all different faiths they get into the christmas spirit doesn't matter they're buddhist hindus they're muslims they're smiling more it's the christmas season we're all happier and dr victoria my final question is you know what do you think gets into people's heads during this time of the year do you think people get christmas fever on holiday fever. finally a lot of people are actually get quite stressed about this time it's going to be with their family who they haven't seen in a long time and they really need to learn to be more mindful and in the present moment when they are celebrating apology i think there's this idea that everyone is awestruck by and very moved by it but i feel a lot of pieces feel like there's something deficient about them because that's not really the case definitely stressful trying to find the perfect guy for the perfect person a political comedian dean obeidallah dr victoria taylor psychologist at the american institute for cognitive therapy thank you both for joining us very happy holidays
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to you. all right well christmas is just weeks away so time now for a christmas story one that was written in two thousand and five and has now taken off to become an entire industry there once was an elf called elf on the shelf who shows up in your home after thanksgiving he keeps watch on your family and monitors all of their naughty and nice things that you guys do around the house and takes his all survey sions back to santa claus but if you take a step back and think about that story it's actually kind of creepy a spying elf that watches people when they think they're private and then there's this it's a stick and find stick or a bluetooth enabled sticker and that is designed to help you keep track of anything that you might lose all you have to do is stick to it a pair of keys a remote control in your wallet heck even people and pets creepy right well we want
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to examine how other toys on with the sole mission of spying have taken off and become not only normal for this holiday season but also excepted and widely sought after are to correspondent christine for south takes us under the christmas tree. it's a bird. it's a plane. no it's actually a drone they are drone logic copter two point zero which also happens to be one of the hottest toys of the season. and it doesn't just look like a drone it also acts like one snapping still photos and even recording video people really love the camera the fact that you can interact with anybody as well so aside from recording it all suppose she's videos are huge and facebook as well you can lobby to see the crowd and i check you having brookstone a toy store for adults is full of military style contraptions but the drone is one of the most famous i'm going to give my kids with that this is one of the devices
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that we use to conduct bring the customers and also new this year. the rover two point zero comes up like that it's controlled from an i pad i phone or android and if you don't want the person you're spying on to know they don't have to enter stealth mode. everything shuts off however still active and so on so this year's model has an added function it has a two way audio capability that means the person controlling the device not only can record me but can also communicate with me. so what do people think they thought the technology is there you might as well use it just think it's dangerous i think people don't respond on a neighbor's. type of things you don't want to get into there's evidence this is already happening as you can see on websites like spy based dot com but still nothing but tracking and monitoring devices has also eerily clear that it's become so normal that sites like amazon have devoted an entire section to spy gadgets with
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products like infrared stealth binoculars and night vision goggles. once a seemingly revolutionary almost sign fi idea the future it seems has arrived leaving any notion of privacy in the past. in washington christine freezone. and speaking of high tech toys an online petition on the white house website has demanded for the u.s. government to build get this a death star you know like the one from the george lucas star wars films yup they want darth vader's technology and they want the obama administration to secure the resources to create it by twenty sixteen the petition says quote by focusing our defense resources into a space superiority platform and weapon systems such as a death star the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction
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engineering space exploration and more and strengthen our national defense. now twenty thousand and twenty seven thousand eight hundred thirty eight people have already signed the petition and as is precedent with all petitions that get more than twenty five thousand signatures president obama could decide to head over to the dark side and respond to the petition after all one technical point to point out to point out and not to get out on you but according to news reporter eric mack the moon size weapon would require just over a quadrillion tons of steel for construction meaning that it would take more than eight hundred thousand years to produce enough steel to build it according to current rates but take a look at this earlier this week we told you about a super secret x. thirty seven b. and unmanned spacecraft launched by the u s military we still don't know much about
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the purpose of the launch or the spacecraft mission what we do know is that this unmanned spacecraft is nothing new this kind of spacecraft has existed since the cold war when the u.s. navy developed it and as a potential career carrier for nuclear weapons so it may not come from a death star but it looks like movie magic might not be a galaxy far far away after all and that's going to do it for the news for this week but be sure to tune in next week for a brand new lineup here's a preview of just a few of the stories that we're working on first up the veterans administration has a long history of helping soldiers returning from war but a dark truth hides in the halls of the v.a. hospital itself drug abuse is rampant in the v.a. hospital so much so that it has become a hot spot for a licit drug dealing with so many soldiers expecting to expected to return from war in coming years what can the veterans administration do to better serve its
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veterans next week will question more. and next week marks the second anniversary since a young tunisian fruit vendor set himself on fire after his cart was confiscated by authorities his death changed that country and the rest of the middle east as well or so we thought there of spring certainly resulted in some change but how much as new governments form in the middle east and countries like tunisia and egypt are the new leaders just the same as the old ones and what does this mean for america's influence on the region we'll explore plus which founder julian assange has now spent about six months in an ecuadorian embassy in london trying to escape his case in the legal limbo his case still remains in legal limbo we'll take a look back at the events that have led up to this curious case next week those are just a few of the stories we had in store for.

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